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Response to a bar shot...not quite a Jeffer, but what the heck...

from Christel Green (look.no@film.dk)
Wayne, I don4t think we were discussing bone structure or bank accounts - I think we were talking about posing and self- consciousness versus honesty. I confess I made a generalisation, but I still think it holds - mostly :) I guess, to me, "real" people are people who take themselves for granted and are not trying to create any illusions about themselves, because it just hasn4t entered their minds that they should need to be any different than they are. Many, if not most, of us are that way when we think we4re not being watched. Yet, in front of a camera we pose - it4s like as if a set of conventions is pouring out of the lense - "walk this way, talk this way". I guess that4s why candid portraits are so appealing. As I said above, some people are just compulsive posers and not as much fun - IMPO :)
(posted 8576 days ago)

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